Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social Professor, social epidemiologist @hsph.harvard.edu • Social policy + health equity • Director https://hsph.me/sphere • Mama, immigrant • Opinions mine
Noam Ross @noamross.net Computational disease ecologist. Executive Director of @ropensci.org. Co-director and founder @grantwitness.org. Brooklynite. One Health, open science, democracy, #RStats, cities, civics, bikes, fun, love, progress + justice. he/him
Gurman Bhatia @chartwaali.bsky.social Building @revisual.co - one of India's first information design studios / Chart maker, information designer and developer, data journo, trainer #dataviz
Jan Willem Tulp @tulpinteractive.com Visual Systems Designer & Creator of Frameshift Design | Transforming extreme complexity into genuine understanding
https://tulpinteractive.com https://timebender.io
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Martin Wattenberg @wattenberg.bsky.social Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
Alexander Lex @alex-lex.bsky.social Data visualization researcher. Associate Prof of CS at the University of Utah. Lab website: https://vdl.sci.utah.edu. Co-founder of
datavisyn: https://datavisyn.io
Ben Jones @benrjones.bsky.social CEO of dataliteracy.com, author of nine books on data and AI including Avoiding Data Pitfalls and AI Literacy Fundamentals
Lane Harrison @laneh.bsky.social Assoc Prof Computer Science at WPI— we study data visualization
Alex Kale @kalealex.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Computer Science and Data Science at UChicago. Research on visualization, HCI, statistics, data cognition. Moonlighting as a musician 🎺 https://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~kalea/
Dominik Moritz @domoritz.de Visualization, data, AI/ML. Professor at CMU (@dig.cmu.edu, @hcii.cmu.edu) and researcher at Apple. Previously @idl.uw.edu. Also sailboats ⛵️ and chocolate 🍫.
www.domoritz.de
Andrew McNutt @mcnuttandrew.bsky.social Professing at University of Utah
vis/hci/programming interfaces
(He/his)
http://mcnutt.in/
Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com Playing with data, visualizing it for humans at flowingdata.com
Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford.
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh
Arvind Satyanarayan @arvind.bsky.social Asst Professing at MIT CSAIL. Data visualization, ML interpretability, accessibility, cognitively convivial information.
Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com Information designer / art director / visual journalist / science communicator • Author of Building Science Graphics • Former gigs include graphics @ Scientific American & design @ National Geographic • www.jenchristiansen.com • Ask me about pulsar charts
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Data & Decision Science and English. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka. PI #AIAInetwork. Views my own.
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social Hacker Mama/Artist/Designer/Coder/Writer/She/Ella Assoc Prof of Urban Science @MITdusp, Director, Data + Feminism Lab, Co-author #DataFeminism, hablo castellano
Maarten Lambrechts @maartenzam.bsky.social Data visualization consultant at the Development Data Group of the World Bank
www.maartenlambrechts.com
Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social JasonForrestAgency.com, Data Vandals, Editor-in-chief of Nightingale, Electronic Musician, Ex-McKinsey. Contact & more: http://jasonforrestftw.com
Fernanda Viégas @viegas.bsky.social Human/AI Interaction and data visualization. Professor at Harvard. Co-founder of Google's People+AI Research initiative (PAIR)
Revisual Labs @revisual.co We’re an information design and development agency crafting memorable data stories. Rooted in India with a global outlook. 💻 https://revisual.co/ 💻
#dataviz #informationdesign 
Nadieh Bremer @nadiehbremer.com Award-winning Data Visualization Designer & Data Artist | Founder of Visual Cinnamon | Graduated Astronomer ✨ | Author of "CHART" & "Data Sketches" | 🇳🇱
VisualCinnamon.com
IEEE VIS @ieeevis.org The world's premier forum for advances in visualization and visual analytics. https://ieeevis.org/year/2026/welcome
Charles Perin @cperin.bsky.social Visualization & HCI at the University of Victoria
Leo Zhicheng Liu @zcliu.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ UMD CS, data visualization, visual analytics, human-AI interaction
https://www.zcliu.org/
Charl P. Botha @charlbotha.com Enjoyer of programming, data visualization / science / engineering, ML / AI, Emacs (org, evil), PKM, running and other humans.
https://charlbotha.com/
P.S. my extremely personal blog (100s of posts, more than 20 years of life) is at https://cpbotha.net
Noeska Smit @noeskasmit.com Professor in Medical Visualization at the dept. of Informatics, University of Bergen and the Mohn Medical Imaging and Visualization (MMIV) center. 🇳🇱 in 🇳🇴, 📊,🧶,🎮,🤘
Crystal Lee @handle.invalid Writing about tech, power, data visualization, social media, disability. Assistant prof of computational media @ MIT. 🇹🇼
crystaljjlee.com
Jeffrey Heer @jheer.org UW Computer Science Professor. Data, visualization & interaction. UW Interactive Data Lab, Vega, Ex-Trifacta. Sometimes Seattle, manchmal Berlin.
Nick Desbarats @nickdesb.bsky.social Independent instructor and best-selling author, data visualization and dashboard design.
Books, videos, articles, training workshops to level up your dataviz or dashboard design chops: www.practicalreporting.com
Justin Matejka @justinmatejka.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Scientist (Visualization and HCI) at Autodesk Research.
https://www.research.autodesk.com/people/justin-matejka/
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net Senior Visual Data Journalist at @zeit.de. Co-founder and former CTO of @datawrapper.de. Former @nytimes.com graphics editor #datajournalism #graphics #maps #cartography #dataviz (he/him)
Chad Skelton @chadskelton.bsky.social Instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Vancouver, Canada. Data journalist. Nerd for hire: charts, maps, Tableau training. Past: Vancouver Sun he/him cskeltondata@gmail.com http://www.chadskelton.com/
Lace Padilla @lacepadilla.bsky.social I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Northeastern University and a member of the Data Visualization Lab @Khoury.
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@DrDataVIS
Interactive Data Lab @idl.uw.edu Visualization & data analysis research at the University of Washington. In a prior life was the Stanford Vis Group. https://idl.uw.edu
Ben Shneiderman @benbendc.bsky.social Retired Prof Computer Science, Univ of Maryland, Working on HCI, Info Visualization, and Human-Centered AI
Noah Iliinsky @noah-i.bsky.social UX, visualization, & info designer, IA. Climate hawk. Feminist, anti-racist SJW. Practical cyclist. Vis books author & editor, speaker. Will block fascists. he/him
scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social Understands comics… mostly… Now on sale: THE CARTOONISTS CLUB, co-created with the legendary Raina Telgemeier! https://bit.ly/CartoonistClub And I'm also working on a massive book about visual communication; learn more at scottmccloud.com.
Stephen North @truenorth.bsky.social Graphviz, infovis before it was cool
Shirley Wu @shirleywu.studio chinese-american artist, software engineer, dataviz designer, keynote speaker, published author && a work-in-progress learning to take up space ✨
🔗 shirleywu.studio
Enrico Bertini (FILWD) @ebertini.bsky.social FILWD on Substack: https://filwd.substack.com/. Weekly post on data visualization and beyond (quite some AI lately).
Data visualizer (teaching, researching, divulging, etc.) Faculty at Northeastern University. Italian. Father of 3.
Robert Kosara @eagereyes.org Interested in all things visual and data, like data visualization. ISOTYPE collector, synth dabbler, runner.
Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social Ginni Rometty Prof @NorthwesternCS | Fellow @NU_IPR | AI, people, uncertainty, beliefs, decisions, metascience | Blog @statmodeling
Julia Strand @juliafstrand.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at Carleton College. Speech, cognition, measurement, open science! Book carver. Podcast: Juice and the Squeeze. she/her. http://juliastrand.com
Danyel Fisher @danyelf.bsky.social Data visualization; user experience with data analysis; general joyful data nerdery. https://danyelfisher.info
Alireza Karduni @akarduni.bsky.social Assistant professor of Human-centered Computing, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, SFU | HCI + Vis researcher
Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social Professor of Visual Analytics who does datavis, visualization storytelling and natural travel. Did I mention visualization?
ProPublica @propublica.org Investigative journalism in the public interest. Headlines and (sometimes literal) receipts.
propublica.org
Amelia Wattenberger @wattenberger.com web dev, design, LLMs, data viz, tools for thought
✨ Design @ SHV
🌸 wattenberger.com
Hendrik Strobelt @henstr.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at IBM Research and Explainability lead at the MIT-IBM AI Lab in Cambridge, MA. Interested in all things (X)AI, NLP, Visualization. Hobbies: Social chair at #NeurIPS, MiniConf, Mementor-- http://hendrik.strobelt.com
Moritz Stefaner / Truth & Beauty @moritzstefaner.bsky.social Crafting data experiences at http://truth-and-beauty.net
FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com The FT’s team of reporters, statisticians, illustrators, cartographers, designers, and developers work with colleagues across our newsrooms, using graphics and data to find, investigate and explain stories.
https://www.ft.com/visual-and-data-journalism
RJ Andrews @infowetrust.com Obsessed with data graphics. I design high‑stakes charts.
Founder, Visionary Press • CHARTOGRAPHY weekly
Talks • workshops • consulting → infowetrust.com
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com Professor, UW Biology / Santa Fe Institute
I study how information flows in biology, science, and society.
Book: *Calling Bullshit*, http://tinyurl.com/fdcuvd7b
LLM course: https://thebullshitmachines.com
Corvids: https://tinyurl.com/mr2n5ymk
he/him
Amy Cesal @amycesal.com Freelance information designer and data viz consultant.
👩🏼🏫 Instructor @ MICA Data Analytics and Visualization grad program
📊 Product Evangelist @everviz
https://www.amycesal.com
Matthew Kay @mjskay.com Assoc Prof Computer Science and Communication Studies at Northwestern. Infovis, HCI. Author of tidybayes & ggdist R pkgs. he/him. 🏳️🌈 https://mjskay.com/
Co-director https://mucollective.northwestern.edu
Co-founder https://journalovi.org
Alberto Cairo @albertocairo.com Designer, journalist, and professor.
Author of 'The Art of Insight' (2023) 'How Charts Lie' (2019), 'The Truthful Art' (2016), and 'The Functional Art' (2012). NEW PROJECT: https://openvisualizationacademy.org/ 
Andy Kirk @visualisingdata.com An Independent Data Visualisation Expert educating, inspiring, and celebrating data viz excellence, everywhere since 2010.
🇬🇧 in 🇮🇪
It’s all here http://visualisingdata.com/